newfs limits? 10TB filesystem max?

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Fri Feb 18 23:16:23 GMT 2005



Daniel Eriksson wrote:

>Julian Elischer wrote:
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>>I would be surprised fi you can check a 5TB filesystem
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>I regularly run fsck in parallel on a 512MB machine with six UFS2
>filesystems: 1.2TB, 500GB, 4 x 250GB
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>I've never noticed any shortage of memory while doing this.
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that is 6 separate processes.
each has a separate limit.
totalling maybe 1.8GB ram required..
how much is in the machine?
it alsdepends on how many files you have.. which is why I specified a 
full filesystem

we were looking at 1TB of 10K files millions of which ahd multiple links.


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